Installation

Note

For versions 3.x (Python 3) documentation, see https://ncas-cms.github.io/cf-python

Dependencies

See https://bitbucket.org/cfpython/cf-python/overview for the current list of dependencies.

Install with conda

To install cf-python and cf-plot, download and install Anaconda Python 2.7. On the command line type

conda install -c ncas -c conda-forge cf-python cf-plot udunits2=2.2.20
conda install -c conda-forge mpich esmpy

The first line installs cf-python and cf-plot. The second installs esmpy, together with the netcdf-fortran and mpich requirements, which cf-python uses for regriding data.

Install with pip

cf-python is available from the python package index (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cf-python).

$ pip install cf-python

Install from source

Download the cf package from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cf-python

Unpack the library (replacing <version> with the approrpriate release, e.g. 2.2.4):

$ tar zxvf cf-python-<version>.tar.gz
$ cd cf-python-<version>

To install the cf package to a central location:

$ python setup.py install

To install the cf package locally to the user in the default location (often within ~/.local):

$ python setup.py install --user

To install the cf package in the <directory> of your choice:

$ python setup.py install --home=<directory>

Issues

Please raise any questions or problems at https://bitbucket.org/cfpython/cf-python/issues